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  1. Re:Worms are a poor model on Cellular Compound May Increase Lifespan Without the Need For Strict Dieting · · Score: 1

    It may do, and I'm not joining in.

  2. Re:Media companies are clueless on UK ISPs To Send Non-Threatening Letters To Pirates · · Score: 1

    You run out of content in about 3 months in the UK. Its like an old VHS store.

  3. Re:Like TV licensing vans on UK ISPs To Send Non-Threatening Letters To Pirates · · Score: 1

    And you can also write to them withdrawing implied right of access and your personal details.
    They are the 3rd party company only. No need to deal with them.

    http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Wi...

  4. Re:Brilliant move... on London Black Cabs Threaten Chaos To Stop Uber · · Score: 1

    Having used black cabs for a number of year going all over London (work was paying). I can tell you a great many of them fail at every point you mention. Some use satnavs - many have the AtoZ and sneak a look. Just about all bump up the fair by taking a silly route. It may have been great years ago; but not anymore.

  5. Re:Hey Tim on First Arrest In Japan For 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's in 3D

  6. Re:Windows 9 may be sooner on Head of MS Research On Special Projects, Google X and Win 9 · · Score: 1

    7 is fine. MS list the Extended Support End Date as 1/14/2020. That will do.
    How long have people been hanging on to XP? - 14 years and going? http://support.microsoft.com/l...

  7. Re:'Real' money uhu on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Real money is backed by ..... A HUGE ARMY!

  8. Re:Will the door have windows? on 'The Door Problem' of Game Design · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you're going to disprove my point with facts and logic that's unsportsmanlike.

  9. Re:Will the door have windows? on 'The Door Problem' of Game Design · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm going for a manager vibe. I've read the word json somewhere and I think all company use of HTML should in the Json now. So if you could just implement that and fill out this TPS report that would be great.

  10. Re:RPG Games on 'The Door Problem' of Game Design · · Score: 2

    A good thing. I'd have to open every door in the game. I don't have OCD. OCD.. OCD... O.C.D.

  11. Will the door have windows? on 'The Door Problem' of Game Design · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd like little windows so people can see into the next room. These are always missing in games.
    ALSO, I want to shoot something through the doors and blow them up with things.
    #FeatureCreep

  12. Re: Not trying to steer the car this car off the r on Minnesota Teen Wins Settlement After School Takes Facebook Password · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and the parents / legal guardian should have been there.

  13. Re:begrudge education on UK Bans Sending Books To Prisoners · · Score: 1

    He/she used the Department for Education’s total budget; but not the Ministry of Justices’ total budget, which isn't a win for any argument and shows a lack of awareness. You'd not be happy with cherry picking stats either, order of magnitude difference or otherwise. There are around 8.5 million Children in the system and around 100k prisoners. Each prisoner costs way more more per head than child, per year.

  14. Re:begrudge education on UK Bans Sending Books To Prisoners · · Score: 1

    No facts or citation supplied to back up either.

  15. Re:begrudge education on UK Bans Sending Books To Prisoners · · Score: 1

    OMG, you're right! The UK prison population and children in education is exactly the same.

  16. Re:Prison is not a holiday camp on UK Bans Sending Books To Prisoners · · Score: 1

    They'll get burnt in the ensuing riots.

  17. begrudge education on UK Bans Sending Books To Prisoners · · Score: 2

    If they spent the same on education as they did on locking people up per year then maybe you wouldn't have to lock so many people up.

  18. Is this for real? 1 metre USB cable £20? sounds like Schiit to me.

  19. Re:Dad .. Can I? on Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases · · Score: 1

    Chores are not worth me putting credit card details into a phone so this type of thing can happen. Free download and airplane mode on switched if about as far as i'll go. Ever handed over some tools and an old radio or VHS player to take apart? All you have to do is loosen some screws and you've a whole afternoon of fun.

  20. Dad .. Can I? on Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases · · Score: 2

    No!
    Oh but why?
    No!
    But. But.. That's not fair.
    Don't care. Grow up unhappy.

    Kids need to learn how to say No! to their kids or you end up with shitty grandchildren.
    That's my motivation and future investment in people done.

  21. Re:Was a British company not anymore on BP Finds Way To Bypass US Crude Export Ban · · Score: 3, Informative

    and to back that up some more. These old reports lists US ownership to be just about equal with UK http://www.globalresearch.ca/w... AND.. BP, Transocean and Anadarko were the main players in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. http://www.globalresearch.ca/u...

  22. Re:Heat is the limiting factor in our muscles, too on Fishing Line As Artificial "Muscle" · · Score: 1

    Engines have been dealing with cooling and heating for years. Wear and tear on moving parts expanding and contracting should be ok.
    Values, joints and seals will break at the wrong time and leak over something they shouldn't.
    I found this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Role it up, stick it in concertina piping and run hot and cold air / water / oil / tea / beer/ over it.

  23. Master Control Program: Sure..... on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they are happy to break up into as many parts as you think they need.
    I'm sure they are happy to keep people as misdirected as possible.
    I'm sure they are happy to be closed down 100% no one at this address not more... /business as usual behind the curtain.

    Tron is dead..
    Master Control Program: End of line!

  24. Re:Heat is the limiting factor in our muscles, too on Fishing Line As Artificial "Muscle" · · Score: 1

    at this scale getting heat and coolant around the wire will be easy.

  25. Social on Sony's Favorite Gadget Is Kinect · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wish they'd both make everything a lot less social and less connected. I don't want to go into another persons house if they have the NSA/GCHQ spy cam installed. I don't know what the police think I've done and come get me regardless. Think they wouldn't?
    Luckily the games are awful so I've not need to buy either.